EDITORIALS...
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sion power line?
In numerous meetings"ever the last nine months the;
possibility of altering the route has been discussed. Last
spring the Chapel Hill aldermen formally asked the utility
firm if it wouldn’t try to avoid going through the fast
growing residential area along Morgan’s Creek.
Since then the aldermen considered, but failed to
pass into law a recommendation from the Planning Board
which would make power line construction’projects sub
ject to issuance of a special use permit. The aldermen
also used their good offices to try to reach a less unsatis
factory solution to the problem of locating the line—for
no location will be totally satisfactory.
p Last Thursday night, it now appears, the final sum
mit meeting was held. Partisans of Duke Power. Morgan .
(•reek area residents, and aroused southern Orange Conn-1
ty rural folks staged a two-hour verbal battle in a hearing
before the aldermen, [ he obvious now is that the route
isn t going to be changed much, if any, from previous
plans.
Court battle remains ...
1 he possibility of an underground power transmission
line is now given less credence than earlier by the attor
ney for the embattled Morgan Creek residents. So the
only thing remaining is the courtroom battle over con
demnation of the laud.
Certainly nobody wants a ioo,ooo-volt power line
limning across his property, though he unquestionably
.jnust have the electric current it provides
It is too bad that a more satisfactory solution for the local
community could not have been reached in this matter.
Out of this wringing of hands we can only hope that
the growing trend toward vesting planning authority
more in the hands of local government will be speeded.
There will probably not be another local power line
controversy in our lifetime. But there will be other
land use problems that may be solved then by appropriate
planning legislation enacted before the problem arises
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pose will insure the election of
a Republican govemar^in 19M.
The Repa^dab*'Wficial, a dKh
ful opponHMI. for the occaMoA,
says in effect that “although we
knbw this ail the time we have
no additional evidence to offer
now.”
We’ll haye to assume that the
recent Raleigh revelation, in the
eyes of the Republican critic,
proves that Republicans are
honest and Democrats are net.
There’s no other logic if not
that. What he overlooks is that
the people will also remember
that under the regime of Gov.
Sanford these exposes—none of
which held their roots in his ad
ministration — were honestly
brought out and cleaned up.
—New back there- on the- jedk.
torial page is the note of sur
prise that as much as $80,000 in
pay-offs could be in ’the purchase
of highway signs.—Doesn’t sur
prise this coiner, for by coinci
dence, our recollection is that
about $80,000 was the lew-bid
cost of signs for the 15 mile stretch
of Interstate Highway 85, almost
all of this in Orange County,
when the job was completed
last year.
rREETING
Unless^ the “leaders” of the
United States and the rest of
the world can break through the
thought barrier that war “limit
ed” or “total” is still permissi
ble between the polar powers:
that the splitting of the atom
has. changed nothing; then noth
ing can save the human species;
then all of us will become the
victims of inadequate, immature
leadership.
Fortunately, the world is not j
divided-'into the good or evil as
nationalist’ propaganda would!
have us believe. If this were |
true there would be no hope of'
accommodation,: I and therefore. 1
no possibility of peace. Instead
the worjd is cPfljposed of peoples !
and nati^5-4liat are both good
and evil.-m varying degrees, of
course. And* the degree varies
from year to year and frorrf plage j
to place. As an illustration, the !
people of the United States had
much greater freedom a few
vears ago than they have now
On the other hand, many nations
and peoples, including the So
viets. have greater freedom now
than ever before. Yes. change is
the one changeless thing about
life.
It. is important to remember
that there is no such thing as a I
free world or slave society. Some
slavery exists in the freest so
ciety and some freedom in the
darkest dictatorship. War. wheth
er hot or cold, cannot promote
freedom; it can only promote'
death and increase slavery. The
cold war, therefore must be
ended, or it will erupt into a
thermo-nuclear one and end hu
man society on this earth.
» Hugh B. Hester
1074 23rd Ave. North
St. Petersburg, Fla.
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Tar Heel People & Issues
Eight Patriots' seen as fodder
for the gubernatorial grist mill
By CLIFF BLUE
LOOKING TO 1964 ' . . While
the 1964 gubernatorial campaign
is more than two years off,
nevertheless, politicians all over
the state are talking and wonder
ing just what the line-up will be.
Right now it looks like it will
be a wide-open race, and as of
now no one has a sufficient lead
to compare with Terry Sanford’s
position four years ago at this
time.
Here are some of those being
mentioned, and we will list them
alphabetically:
Bert Bennett of Winston
Salem, Chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Commit
tee and Sanford’s primary
eampafgn manager is mention
ed in most every conversation.
If he runs he would have the
support of the Sanford organi
zation.
Senator Archie Davis, also of
Winston-Salem is occasionally
mentioned. He . would in all
probability have the support of
the conservative element of the
party.
Voit Gilmore of Southern
Pines and Director of the U. S.
Travel Agency in Washington is
mentioned and is interested. He
would likely have the support of
.Hodges lieutenants should he
enter the race.
(Carles Gold of Rutherfordton,
State Insurance Commissioner is
frequently mentioned. .Gold
would probably expect strong
support from firemen over the
iitaU?.'.1 ‘..
Joseph M. Hunt, Jr., of
Greensboro who served as Speak
er of the 1961 House is a likely
candidate and is probably the
most active at this point of all
those being mentioned He was a
supporter of Sanford’s school
and tax program in the ’61
Assembly. He would expect
strong support among the legisla
tors with whom he has served.
Woodrow Jones of Ruther
fordton is interested and may
well become a candidate. He
would have strong conserva
tive support. He has served in
the State legislature, in Con
gress. and as State Party
Chairman during the closing
months of Hodges’ administra
, tion. He has good connections
| over the state. -
We have not “heard much talk
■ of Henry Jordan, although his
name was frequently mentioned
as a possible candidate in 1952,
! and again in 1956. Henry Jordan
is one man who might garner
strong support from both the
i liberal and the conservative ele
ments of the party. He was a
close friend and Highway Chair
i man under Kerr Scott. He is a
1 brother of U. S. Senator B.
Everett Jordan, a leader" of the
conservative element in the
state. Don’t overlook ‘.‘Brother
Henry” as a possibility.
Wide-open fi.eld draws
big crowd to Statesville
YEK: MEETING Along
with some 600 other Tar HeeJ
Democrats, the writer attended
the Installation Meeting of the
North Carolina YDCs in States
ville Saturday night. The big
crowd came despite the bad
weather, and they came from
far and near.
. The question is: Why did
double the oi^inally expected
crowd attend the meeting?
Our thought is this: The
North Carolina gubernatorial
outlook for 1964 is as wide
open as it has been in 40 years
with no one man oyer-sha
dowing the field and with so
many ,, “patriots” willing to
serve should the call come
their way.
If U, S. Rep. A. Paul Kitchin
defeats Charlie Jonas for con
gress in the new eighth district,
he may well come up as a can
didate for governor in the 1964
primary. He would look for
strong support from the con
servative element of the party.
We might go on and mention
this, many rftore possibilities, but
out of this group you will find
“patriots willing to serve” as the
late Governor Cherry used to
say when^so many people would
be seeking appointments.
And too. the name of the riext
governor may just as well not be
mentioned among the eight
names listed above. Kerr Scott’s
name was seldom it ever men
tioned as a gubernatorial can
didate two years ahead of his
election. You never heard the
name of Luther Hodges men
tioned as a gubernatorial candi
date three years before he had
taken up permanent residence
in the governor’s mansion.
Sometimes the political waters
change quickly and completely!
This is one of the reasons that
political events are so unpredic
table.
MAX THOMAS . . . Should
State Senator Max Thomas of
Marshvilje win out in his effort
to run for lieutenant governor,
and be successful at the polls, he
would emerge as a man to be
reckoned with in the 1964 guber
natorial sweepstakes.
Vet queries should go
to Winston-Salem office
Information concerning bene
fits administered by the Veterans
Administration may be obtained
much more quickly by writing or
visiting the Winston-Salem Re
gional Office, rather than writ
ing VA Central Office, Washing
ton, D. C.
Specific requests for informa
tion concerning individual cases
cannot be handled in Washing
ton, J. D. DeRamus, Manager,
Winston-Salem Regional Office
pointed out. These must be sup
plied by the office where the rec
ords, files and case folders per
taining to the individual veteran
are maintained.
When veterahs write their VA
Regional Office for information,
they should include *. then: jftMJ
name, complete addr&s, birth;
date and claim number? fCcNutn4
ber), if they have one. This will
identify the veteran and assist
the VA in locating promptly
papers and records sometimes
needed in supplying answers to
queries.
PATRICK-R ANSON
Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Clinton
Patrick Jr., of Chapel Hill an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter, Vincent LeGrand. to
Murphy Dale Ranson II, of Chap
el Hill last Thursday, Ian. 4, in
the Episcopal Chapel of the Cross,
in Chapel Hijl.
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